Briarpatch business

I've written about the mountain bike history in another blog.  The Briarpatch was hundreds of businesses that were part of a network I started in the S.F. Bay Area in 1974.  The inventors and builders of mountain bikes in San Anselmo, Marin County, were members of the Briarpatch. I visited their first shop, with other Briarpatch consultants, several times and always encouraged them on the path of business they were pursing on their own.

I just want to point out that even today the mountain bike world still has all the remnants of the early founding values of the Briarpatch.  The founders made only the highest quality bikes and sought to alway improve the technology not to get into mass production.  Everything they did, they did as part of a community including newsletters, parties, outings, clubs and the inclusion of customers in the family of mountain bikers.

Craingslist is built on the model of the Briarpatch.

If you've got a great business, start it the Briarpatch way.